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NYMag: The U.S. Has Killed 50,000 ISIS Militants in the Past Two Years
The United States–led coalition has killed 50,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria in the past two years. The estimate is conservative, according to a U.S. military official, but also represents the largest casualty number reported in the battle against the extremist group.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/u-s-has-killed-50-000-isis-militants-in-the-past-two-years.html
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
alaraby: Double bomb attacks rock Iraq's capital
Twin bombs attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have left ten dead and 22 wounded on Friday with officials saying the attacks bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group.
The casualty toll for Friday's attacks was provided by police and hospital officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief reporters.
http://https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2016/12/9/double-bomb-attacks-rock-iraqs-capital
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
DoD: Airstrike Destroys Fleet of ISIL Oil Tankers in Syria
In the largest airstrike of its kind to date, the coalition destroyed a fleet of 168 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant oil tanker trucks near Palmya, Syria, according to a Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve news release.
http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1025901/airstrike-destroys-fleet-of-isil-oil-tankers-in-syria
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
CBSNews: U.S. airstrike killed ISIS leader linked to Charlie Hebdo attack
A leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, who was linked to the 2015 attacks at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, U.S. military officials said Friday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-leader-charlie-hebdo-attack-airstrike-killed-syria/
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
VOA: U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Hilla, Iraq
An ISIL suicide bomber recently detonated a truck filled with explosives at a roadside service station in Hilla, Iraq, killing nearly 80 people and injuring many more. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this outrageous terrorist attack.
http://editorials.voa.gov/a/us-condemns-terrorist-attacks-in-hilla-iraq/3630788.html
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Reuters: Iraqi troops pull out from Mosul hospital after fierce battle
Iraqi troops who briefly seized a Mosul hospital believed to be used as an Islamic State base were forced to withdraw from the site, but managed to establish a base for army tanks nearby after days of fierce back-and-forth fighting, residents said.
The rapid advance into the Wahda neighborhood where the hospital is located marked a change of tactic after a month of fighting in east Mosul in which the army has sought to capture and clear neighborhoods block by block.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-idUSKBN13X1EI
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Reuters: Iraqi militiawoman fights for revenge against Islamic State
Wearing a camouflage cap over her headscarf, Miaad al-Jubbouri cuts an unusual figure among the hundreds of men fighting to retake a village from Islamic State in northern Iraq.
The mother of five was the sole woman among a joint force of Iraqi army and tribal militias who attacked the village of Kanous on Wednesday - one of multiple fronts in a campaign to drive the insurgents from their remaining strongholds in Iraq.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-mosul-fighter-idUSKBN13X18P
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Reuters: Iraq says it destroys Mosul car bomb factories
Iraqi forces captured a neighborhood in east Mosul on Friday, pushing deeper to the heart of Islamic State's Iraq stronghold and destroying three sites where it produced car bombs used in waves of suicide attacks, the campaign's commander said. Lieutenant-General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah said Counter Terrorism Service forces spearheading the seven-week operation to retake Mosul seized the Tamim district halfway between the city's eastern edge and the River Tigris running through its center.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-idUSKBN13Y1Z7
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Reuters: Islamic State attacks Iraqi soldiers in Mosul
Islamic State militants attacked Iraqi soldiers near a hospital in southeast Mosul on Wednesday, an army officer and the jihadist group's new agency said, trying to repel the army's deepest advances of the seven-week Mosul campaign.
The fighting came a day after the army's operations commander for Mosul said soldiers surged into the city and took over the Salam hospital, less than a mile (1.5 km) from the Tigris river which divides eastern and western Mosul.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-army-idUSKBN13W1I5
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Reuters: Dozens killed in west Iraq air strike, MPs and medics say
Air strikes killed dozens of people, including many women and children, in an Islamic State-held town near Iraq's western border with Syria on Wednesday, two parliamentarians and local hospital sources said.
They said the air strikes hit a busy market in the town of Qaim, in Iraq's Anbar province, describing the incident as a massacre. The hospital sources said 55 civilians were killed, including 12 women and 19 children, in three air strikes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-town-idUSKBN13W2HZ
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT